The Honorable
David Paterson
Governor of New York
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224

Dear
Governor Paterson:

Our nation
and our states must stop investing
in programs that hurt rather than
aide the general welfare and common
defense. Cornell University's and
our other land-grant universities'
(LGUs') meat-industry courses drive
soaring medical & insurance
costs, poor nutrition, water and
topsoil loss and contamination,
global warming, influenza-pandemic
threats, war, oppression, and poverty.
I respectfully request your assistance
in ending Cornell's and our other
LGUs' meat-industry courses.

Inestimable
billions of dollars' worth of training,
research, and public relations our
LGUs give the meat, dairy, egg,
fish, and feed-crop industries lock
us into an unhealthful, globally
disastrous diet. Billions of
pills for chronic disease and billions
of gallons of farmed-animal feces
stinking up the landscape are unnecessary
like the annual slaughter of billions
of animals for private gain.

Many
of our LGUs have responded to the
extensive information we have sent
them these past six years, summarized
in the enclosed factsheets. None
has refuted what we say. Yet no
LGU has agreed to stop promoting
our most destructive industries.
As Governor of New York, you can

Address the problem with Cornell
University's trustees and the
New York legislature, with the
objective of eliminating "animal
science."

Ensure that New York's entire
school system teaches the truth
about food, nutrition, original
human nature, and ecology. "Animal
science" is inconsistent
with that. Sources mentioned in
the enclosed factsheets can help.

Ensure that the National Governors
Association addresses the "animal
science" problem.

It is
hard to provide for the general
welfare and common defense with
our most influential institutions
working against us. I hope you will
help solve the far-reaching "animal
science" problem. The enclosed
factsheets provide excellent background.
I hope you will let me know your
thoughts. Thank you for your consideration.